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Exactly. A common adage in the aerospace world is that it's not aerodynamics that makes airplanes fly, it's money. Same thing here. The only way NASA is going
by teleclimber 9y ago
Exactly. A common adage in the aerospace world is that it's not aerodynamics that makes airplanes fly, it's money.
Same thing here. The only way NASA is going anywhere outside LEO is with a commitment by congress to spend gobs and gobs of money every year over many years.
- danblick 9y agoInstead of arguing to go to Mars, let's get the military interested in kinetic bombardment systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment Clearly we need one because North Korea or terrorists or sharks or whatever. It's so expensive to put all that metal into space, they'll get interested in asteroid mining before long. And once there's a market for orbital-velocity asteroid metal... profit!